THE WORKS OF A.E. AFIGBO ON NIGERIA: AN HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY

From: History In Africa | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Heaton, Matthew; Falola, Toyin | Copyright information

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Nigeria in the post-independence years has seen its share of hardship. Politically dominated by military dictatorships, economically dominated by the ravages of underdevelopment, and culturally dominated by internal ethnic tensions and external stereotyping, Nigeria certainly seems to have suffered from an overabundance of problems and a dearth of solutions in the last forty plus years. This period, full of scholarly debate on these issues, also closely parallels the academic career ...

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